Directions for Completing Your Phonological Awareness Activity Chart

Directions for Completing Your Phonological Awareness Activity Chart (15 points)

1. During class, you will meet in groups of three to select one of the poems to frame your activity and designate which tasks you will each complete for homework.

a. Each student should select three skill areas on Dechant’s Chart of Levels of Phonological Awareness (one area at each of the three levels).

2. For homework, for your assigned “three skill boxes”, you will a. Identify several words in your selected poem that would be appropriate to use to teach students at each skill level of phonological awareness that you were assigned.

i. Write each list of words in a way that helps explain how you will present words to students (e.g., rhyming pair, words broken into syllables, onset-rime, segmentation or blending). Use your handouts with The Teeny Tiny Ghost example from class to guide your selection and write-up of the words. b. Briefly describe an appropriate activity you might use (e.g., a particular song, a game, a series of actions, etc) to actively engage kindergarten students with the words you have selected while teaching that particular aspect of phonological awareness. i. You may use any of the resources from your readings to help come up with activity ideas. These include: 1. Yopp & Yopp article on Developing Phonemic Awareness

2. Tompkins section on Phonemic Awareness (assigned reading) 3. Handouts for Phonological Awareness Activities

4. Video activities viewed in class and outlined in your handout 3. During our next class, you will meet back in your groups of three to share and exchange ideas about the activities you created. By the end of this class, you should have all nine cells of your activity chart completed by your group to hand in for credit. Each student will hand in their own activity chart, indicating which three activities they developed for homework.

Possible Earned You developed three lists of words from your poem to 3 points accompany each skill and wrote them in a way that helped explain how you would present the words to students (1 point each = 3 points) You briefly described an appropriate activity you might use 6 points with your word list to develop each skill (2 points each = 6 points) You actively participated in the idea exchange during class 6 points and recorded ideas from your classmates for the other six skills. (1 point each = 6 points) TOTAL Phonological Awareness Activities for ______Partner Names: ______

Word Awareness Rhyme Awareness Syllable Awareness

Initial Consonant Sounds Alliteration Onset-rime Awareness

Phonemic Awareness: Segmentation Phonemic Awareness: Blending Phonemic Manipulation: Additions, Deletions, and Substitutions